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("Best-of" Edition from 8/15) Ryan Bomberger, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, returns to “The Corner.”

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0:00 - 15:00. Mark 6:30-34 (NADB95). Biblical compassion looks nothing like the world’s offerings. 15:00 - 31:00. Ryan Bomberger, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, returns to “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. Great progress has been made toward creating a culture of life in America but there is much more work to be done. or call: 800-326-4543 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everybody.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:35My name is Abraham Hamilton.
0:37The third, I am the host of the program
0:40joined by producing extraordinary, the real Jay Mac,
0:45often imitated, but never duplicated.
0:47Y'all know what it is.
0:48Thank you for tuning into the program.
0:50This evening, this has been quite,
0:54it's been quite a week, boy, quite a week.
1:00But I'm grateful to be here with you at this juncture.
1:04At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
1:07are making your transition from your part-time jobs
1:09where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
1:13where you cultivate an outcome.
1:15As you do so, I want to remind you to make that transition
1:20with intentionality, recognizing first
1:23that what goes on in your house is far more important
1:26than what goes on in the White House.
1:27The reason why what happens in your house
1:29is far more important is because you and I are directly responsible for and accountable
1:35for what we have direct authority over.
1:42We can't control what data did not happen with Vladimir Putin.
1:48And Donald Trump, we can't control that.
1:49We cannot control whether or not Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve is going to
1:55lower interest rates.
1:56We cannot control that.
1:57We cannot control whether or not, you know, state representatives in Texas will do what
2:05they took an oath to do and gather in their state legislatures.
2:08But we can control what we do with the time that God gives us.
2:13We can control the culture and shape the culture in our own homes.
2:19We must invest ourselves in executing the Kings Commission starting right in our own homes.
2:29Among the things that will be examined when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ
2:35will be an assessment of what we did with the time that God has given us on this side
2:41of eternity.
2:43An additional query will be what we have done with the Lord's heritage.
2:49When the Lord said to us through the Apostle Paul, if he's in 6-4, fathers do not exasperate
2:52your children, rather rear them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, he meant that.
2:58That's one of the things the Lord is going to examine us concerning.
3:02And I hope and pray that you will join me in committing ourselves to being able to give
3:07a good report when that query comes.
3:11Well, whenever out politic, out vote, or even out church deficiencies that abound in the home,
3:18There's a reason why fathers in particular have an outsized impact in the lives of their
3:24children regardless of age by the way.
3:28How often do you hear adults, adults, even more seasoned saints reflect on their relationships
3:33with their fathers?
3:35Of course our mothers are included as well.
3:40But the reason why that happens so frequently is because God has hardwired us for the type
3:44of relationship and connect the team with our fathers and through the family.
3:51And there is no middle ground on this point.
3:56We will make an indelible impact upon our children, either affirmatively and intentionally
4:03or negligently.
4:04But that impact will be made and it will be an enduring impact.
4:10So what are you going to do with the time that God has given you on this side of eternity?
4:12What am I going to do?
4:14What the time that God has given me?
4:18How will I respond to God entrusting His heritage to me and Maria for the time He's given us?
4:26And as the days pass, and I was mentioning this early in the week, and these children are
4:30growing and getting older, it reminds me, and they're not going to be young children under
4:37our roots forever.
4:39So let us work while it is day to the word of God we go.
4:43Mark chapter six is where we're going to begin the program today.
4:46Chapter 6, verses 30 through 34, Mark chapter 6, verses 30 through 34. Here's what the word of
4:59God says. The apostles gathered together with Jesus and they reported to him all that they had done
5:08and taught. And he said to them, come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.
5:16For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.
5:23They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.
5:27The people saw them going, and many recognized them, and ran there together on foot from
5:32all the cities, and got there ahead of them.
5:39When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them, because they
5:46They were like sheep without a shepherd and he began to teach them many things.
5:56So this portion of scripture comes to us after disciples was sent out by Jesus.
6:02And as verse 30 records it, when they had gathered together with him, they reported to Jesus
6:08all they had done and taught.
6:15of the principles that should be extracted from this text is that Christ's following absolutely
6:24includes teaching, but it does not consist exclusively of teaching.
6:32Teaching must be, should be, ought to be, has to be accompanied by action.
6:42How many times have I mentioned to you on this program out of the Apostle Paul and these
6:45your pistol to Timothy in particular, when he would say,
6:47you're familiar with my life and my teaching.
6:52You're familiar with my example and my teaching.
6:54You're familiar with how I live and my teaching,
6:58you know, in Philippians chapter four, you know,
7:00one of the most, well, one of, I won't say the most,
7:04but certainly it was one of the portions of the scripture
7:05that resonates deeply with me when the Apostle Paul says,
7:09in verse four, be anxious for nothing but in everything
7:12by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,
7:14Let your request be made known to God and the peace of God,
7:16which passes all understanding,
7:18will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
7:21Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
7:23whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
7:26whatever is worthy of praise, whatever,
7:28if there's any excellence of anything worthy of praise,
7:30well on these things.
7:32And to look how Paul concludes this portion of this epistle,
7:37the things you have learned and received and heard
7:42And seeing in me practice these things.
7:46And the God of peace will be with you.
7:48Paul again affirms in this instance of the church at Philippi
7:51that you've heard my teaching.
7:53You've listened to my didactic presentation of God's holy word,
7:57but you also have seen how I live.
8:01This is what I call the speech and feet phenomenon.
8:04You've heard what I've proclaimed.
8:06You've heard my instruction.
8:08You've heard my exposition,
8:09but also look at how I live. Back to Mark chapter 6, the apostles reported to Jesus all that they
8:17had done and talked. Unfortunately, we have lots of people that want to teach. We don't have as many
8:27people that want to do. And just by way of reminder, I'm not talking about some type of works based,
8:34performance based acquisition of justification. Justification is a free gift. It is the legal,
8:42juridical act for the individual believer who's born again where the Lord declares the
8:48sentence on our sin. He declares guilty, no doubt, but he simultaneously declares, but there
8:56is one who steps in as a propitiation who took upon himself the penalty for your sin.
9:03It's a legal juridical act in which the dual imputation takes place, to where our sin is
9:10imputed to Christ and his righteousness is imputed to us.
9:13So I'm not talking about working to earn justification.
9:16I'm talking about a working, a doing that flows from the heart of the justified.
9:23It is the appropriate response to having been justified.
9:28The apostles reported to Jesus all that they had taught and what they'd done.
9:36He then instructed them to come away by yourselves to a secluded
9:42place and rest a while.
9:46Another principle that should be understood, the Lord gives his beloved rest.
9:52Some of us who are so spun up, we want to have hamster wheel going and going and going
9:56and going and going and going and going and we'll keep going until our bodies expire.
10:00Inflammation here, you know, chronic and perpetual exhaustion, tiredness.
10:07There's a reason why God gave us the Sabbath day.
10:13That has prescribed rest for us guys.
10:16You can't keep going and going and going and going and expecting to be faithful long term.
10:22He gives to his beloved rest.
10:26Then you have a major contrast with the popular cultural expectations because in verse 33,
10:34the scripture records that people saw Jesus' apostles going and many recognized them and
10:40they ran their own foot from all of the cities to get ahead of them.
10:44Look what Jesus said in verse 34.
10:47When Jesus went ashore, I'm sorry, when Jesus did, I'm sorry, not said.
10:51Verse 34, when Jesus went ashore, he saw a large crowd and felt compassion.
10:58He was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
11:05Now after being moved with compassion, the Greek term, literally they're being moved internally
11:12with compassion.
11:13What did he do?
11:14Did he just go sit where they sit?
11:17Just come, just come,
11:18commiserate with me, brother.
11:21Just feel what I feel.
11:23No.
11:24You see, biblical compassion contrasts
11:28with what the world offers.
11:30It diverges steeply from what the world offers.
11:34Jesus' compassion led him to teach the people.
11:42Jesus' compassion led him to corrective action.
11:47You see the world says compassion or they'll say,
11:50love if you love me, love wins, love means you say nothing
11:58to me about my sinful lifestyle that if I continue
12:00in unrepentive fashion I'll go to hell.
12:01Love says nothing about that.
12:03Guys, that's not love biblically.
12:06If you were compassionate, you would merely empathize
12:09with me.
12:10Biblical compassion includes empathy,
12:12but it's not limited to empathy.
12:16Jesus identified with where these people were,
12:19which is why the scripture observed that they were
12:20like sheep without a shepherd.
12:22But he didn't stop at the point of empathy.
12:25He progressed to corrective action by instructing them rightly.
12:33We should never get our marching orders for how we respond from the world,
12:38because the world is going to world.
12:41But biblical compassion includes corrective instruction.
12:44This is why when the Apostle Paul observed by the Spirit of God,
12:50then in the last days will be perilous times.
12:54As I was talking earlier this week, you have palpable irrationality,
12:58crescendo ascending wickedness, but he didn't say just stop and observe. No, no, the word
13:05of God is sufficient. The theonusitos, the God-breathed word is effective for reproof and
13:14rebuke and for correction and for instruction and righteousness. The epistagol is on into
13:19chapter 4 and says, preach the word. We don't allow the circumstances to dictate to us our
13:25response. And so Jesus' example, I was recorded by a benefit in scripture after observing the masses
13:32being scattered, harassed, helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He didn't stop at the level of
13:41just fear with me, just fear what I feel. No, no, he taught them many things. I'm saying all of this
13:47to say, brothers and sisters, if you truly are one who has compassion and that compassion is biblical,
13:54that biblical compassion will ultimately move you and I to action.
13:59Biblical compassion will move us to aid those to whom and with whom we are engaged in identifying
14:08the source of the problem.
14:09Ultimately, I'm not saying you do all in one leap.
14:12There's a reality of understanding a person, getting information, understanding their background,
14:17all these kinds of things, but ultimately biblical compassion leads to corrective action.
14:22who's moving compassion, so he taught them many things.
14:28Our culture is reeling from an effort to secure
14:32some type of positive future,
14:37but the pursuit is followed with a godless disposition.
14:43It is the privilege and opportunity of the believer
14:47to follow our Lord in being moved with compassion,
14:50and so we're willing to offer corrective instructions.
14:53We take our marching orders from our king, not from a corrupted culture.
15:01Children of course are given to parents by God, not to the state.
15:07Children don't belong to the state and we need to make sure that those lines are very
15:11clearly protected and increasingly secularized culture where the government has not only tried
15:19to make the church completely irrelevant but basically replace parents.
15:24Jenna Ellis in the morning, weekdays at 7c on American Family Radio.
15:35Shiting, lightning to the darkness.
15:37This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:41Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
15:44I'm delighted to have on the program.
15:47Man, this brother is such a blessing to the body of Christ.
15:50I admired him for years from a distance and then I've gotten to know him up close and personally,
15:55his beautiful wife and their lovely family.
15:57I'm speaking of none other than Emmy Award winning creative professional, international
16:02public speaker, columnist, factivist, get it right, factivist, also author of the powerful
16:10book, Not Equal Civil Rights Gone Wrong and the groundbreaking illustrated children's books.
16:15He is he and she is she.
16:18I'm speaking of none other than Mr. Ryan Baumburger, co-founder and chief creative officer of the
16:23the Radiance Foundation, which is a life affirming organization that illuminates that every human
16:28life has purpose.
16:30Ryan, thank you for coming back on the Hamilton Corner.
16:33Hey, it's always great to be here with you.
16:35Oh, man, it is just a pleasure and an honor to have you on.
16:40I was just telling you before we came on the air that I was reading these stories that were
16:44coming out over time.
16:46And I immediately thought about you in the powerful ministry that you do through the Radiance
16:52Foundation and I'm talking about these planned parenthood facilities closing all over the
17:00country.
17:01And I know for those who may not know you, I want to invite you now just to share a little
17:05bit of your background and how you became gripped by the Lord to follow him in leading
17:10this work to illuminate the fact, the biblical fact that every human life has purpose.
17:15Yeah.
17:16Well, my story is what compels me.
17:18I'm the fringe example that even some people who are very pro-life have a hard time wrapping their minds around.
17:24But I'm thankful for those who do because I've been able to tell my story in so many different ways.
17:30But it has to do with a birth mom who experienced the horror and the violence of rape.
17:36That's how I came to be.
17:38And even though she experienced that violence, she did not make me a victim of the violence of abortion.
17:43And I'm forever grateful. I was adopted into a family of 15,
17:47Just a few of us in a farmhouse in Lancaster County,
17:49Pennsylvania, actually there are 15 of us.
17:5213 kids, 10 were adopted.
17:54I was the first of 10 adopted by parents who honestly,
17:57were on any kind of mission other than to just do
18:00what God called them to do.
18:01And that was to love those in the world,
18:03basically just throws away.
18:05And I'm one of those throwaway stories.
18:08I've been told many times to my face
18:09that I should have been aborted.
18:11Wow.
18:12But I thank God that he had other plans for me.
18:14And so, you know, I told my story for the first time
18:18at grad school at Regent University.
18:20And because I wanted to meet my birth mom
18:23because I wanted to do all these things
18:26in the world's eyes, what were, I don't know, achievements.
18:30And so I got my master's degree
18:31and I spoke at the commissioning ceremony
18:33and I shared my story for the first time in public.
18:37And I just saw the way that people reacted.
18:39And I realized that I had a story,
18:41a story that was disarming, a story that really just made
18:43tangible, what is so abstract is to make people. But it wasn't until I met the most amazing woman
18:48in my life, my wife, Bethany, when we got married, it was like, God's like, go, and we started the
18:54Radiance Foundation, where parents of four children, two of whom were adopted. But we just took off
19:00in this venture to actually illuminate that every human life has got given purpose. And we started
19:04the Radiance Foundation. And so it's my story being adopted. It's Bethany's story of being a single
19:10mom and resisting the pressure to abort.
19:13And that baby girl, in fact we're taking her to college today,
19:17she's a good junior, her name is Radiance,
19:19she's the reason for the name of our organization, man.
19:22So that's my back story.
19:25And that's so powerful and I know you, so I know the story,
19:28but I still get chills every time I hear you articulate it
19:32because it is such profound biblical truth personified.
19:37personified. You know what I mean? It's like it's touching you. Like when I hug you and I talk to you
19:43in Bethany, I'm hugging and talking to biblical truth right in front of me. And to have someone,
19:51like you just said, I can't imagine what that's like for people to tell you to your face
19:57that you should be aborted. What is that like to have people to have the audacity to say,
20:03Hey, you know what?
20:04You should be dead.
20:05Yeah.
20:06Well, many college campuses, Harvard was one of them.
20:09In fact, it was one of the professors who was debating me.
20:14I have to understand first of all that it's a spiritual battle.
20:17So a lot of these things I don't take personally, but it does blow my mind that someone could allow
20:21themselves, of course, when it's a spiritual thing, it's a very different sort of control
20:25going on there.
20:26Yeah.
20:27But to allow themselves to say something so heartless and so callous, but they don't realize
20:31is the world sees me as something that can be discarded
20:36because I have less value somehow
20:37because we somehow control the circumstances
20:40of our conception, right?
20:42But the world sees someone like me adding no value.
20:45And I don't even care if you don't achieve
20:47whatever the world sees as success.
20:49You have equal and inherent value
20:51and you impact the world no matter who you are,
20:54no matter what you do.
20:55And every single one of us are created by God.
20:58We may not be humanly planned.
20:59God didn't plan for my birth mom to experience
21:02that horrific violence, but he took something so tragic
21:06and brought triumph out of it.
21:07And we can play a role in helping that happen
21:10in other people's lives as well.
21:11And I'm glad that God's been able to use me in that way
21:15in a lot of different circumstances to do the same for others.
21:18Man, glory to God.
21:19One of the things that I find myself echoing often,
21:23especially in pro-life environments,
21:25because I have personally heard people say things like,
21:28You know, you shouldn't kill the babies
21:29because of what they might become.
21:31And I often have to say,
21:32well, hold up, hold up, hold up.
21:34The value of this image bear of God
21:37is not contingent upon any subsequent activity,
21:41that value is inherent.
21:43And many times I find that that has been
21:45a challenging message to convey even in pro-life environments.
21:50Would you just speak a little bit to that,
21:52the intrinsic value of every human life
21:56because of being stamped by the image of the giver of life.
22:03Oh yeah, I mean, Psalm 139 talks about how
22:05we're fearfully and wonderfully made.
22:07There's not some asterisk that says,
22:08oh wait, sorry, if you were humanly planned
22:10and if you will become this and you will be able to achieve
22:13that and you'll be able to do that,
22:14there is no disclaimer there.
22:16We are all fearfully and wonderfully made.
22:17And I know that some people still have a hard time
22:20wrapping their minds around the value of human life
22:24without attaching to it, you know, success stories.
22:26like a steep jobs.
22:27He was adopting the founder of Apple or maybe some own bios.
22:31Some own bios.
22:33I mean, she's the personification of what we call
22:35an organization, the beauty of possibility.
22:37It's so tragic that she is pro-abortion,
22:40but God can change any heart.
22:41But she exemplifies that she was adopted
22:43out of the foster care system by her grandparents.
22:45And because of that love, she had her purpose unleashed.
22:51But every one of us have God given purpose.
22:53Now, it may not be, you know,
22:55being in the world's most decorated gymnast,
22:56but it may be actually teaching others around you
23:01that even the most frail of human life
23:04can empower us as human beings, can empower,
23:07I think the weakest among us, in fact,
23:08Gianna Jessen said this once in his speech,
23:10I attended, the weakest among us,
23:15make us the strongest.
23:17And I see that having siblings with disabilities
23:19in my family, having watched my dad die from Parkinson's.
23:23Oh, that'll teach you a lesson right there.
23:27George Washington Carver even said that he goes,
23:29be kind to everyone because all the things
23:31that people struggle with and they suffer with
23:32throughout their lives, you will become
23:34one of those at some point in your life.
23:36So that's a great lesson.
23:38It's a very biblical lesson.
23:39We are called to be kind and to love one another,
23:42but we all have equal inherent value,
23:43not because the government says so,
23:45not because somebody else says so,
23:46but because God says so.
23:48And I really feel like the lack of grasping that foundational truth, that every human life
23:57is intrinsically valued first and foremost by God.
24:01And as a result must be valued by us as human beings.
24:04I feel like that is the bridge, the foundational bridge that's necessary for them to understand
24:09that the circumstances of a human being's conception don't dictate that value.
24:13If you can get that first component in intrinsic value, it makes it far easier to understand that
24:20the circumstances of one's conception doesn't dictate the value of that human life and that
24:25the desire to honor the value of every human life doesn't mean we have to denigrate a mom
24:33or to ignore that sometimes they are horrendous circumstances that serve as the backdrop in
24:40context for life coming to the fore through procreation.
24:44Yeah, and what blows my mind is that when Christians have a hard time grasping this and
24:49actually embracing it, even the UN back in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
24:54talks about the inherent dignity.
24:57They acknowledge the inherent nature of our worth and value, the inherent dignity of every
25:02member of the human family.
25:04And later on in point three of that, it talked about how everyone has the right to life,
25:09life property and something else. But the whole point is that how does the UN recognize
25:16that something is inherent within human beings and yet Christian still can't with all the
25:21scripture before us be able to grasp the fact that our inherent and equal worth, our intrinsic
25:27worth is not man-made, not human-made. It's got ordained.
25:30What do you think needs to happen in order to have that communication and be more
25:36a solidly embrace. I did a show not too long ago, taken to task the so-called pastor James
25:42Talarico who was on the Joe Rogan show trying to make a case, he says biblically to support abortion.
25:48And frankly, I couldn't stand it. I said this is just that he's flat-lying.
25:54And so we walked through the scriptures to show why he was lying about that. But how do you think
25:58it would be the most effective route to communicate this to fellow believers that every human being
26:04has life, the circumstances of one's conception doesn't dictate value, and to recognize that,
26:09regardless of the circumstances of that conception, while recognizing that the mom's lives are
26:15vitally important as well. It's really frustrating because you don't have this coming from the pulpit,
26:21in a lot of churches. You have a lot of pastors who are afraid because they have now made abortion
26:25political. They did the same thing to slavery. They didn't speak out against slavery because,
26:30Oh, it was a political issue. No, it's a spiritual issue. It is a moral issue. And, and you know,
26:36when you have the image of God being destroyed, that is something that should have Christians rise up.
26:40I don't mean in violence, but rise up against the injustice. And so how do we do that? There's
26:46some great ways. I know that Caronet has had a discipleship sort of program to teach Sunday
26:52school to actually teach the value of human life in a way that that reaches adults, that reaches
26:58youth. I mean, if we don't take a concerted and deliberate effort to actually teach about human
27:03value, we don't teach about even, you know, in youth groups, friends, they used to be a youth
27:07group leader for years, teach about human development. That's why you have in states across the country
27:12that are actually live action does a great job. It's a pro-life group led by Lila Rose.
27:17There may be Olivia film, which isn't a medically accurate prenatal development 3D
27:22movie, it's beautiful and it's getting part it's it's they're passing laws to
27:27actually have a part of of state health curriculums in schools and the liberals
27:32and teachers unions are all upset about this of course and Planned Parenthood are
27:35super upset about this because why not because it's biologically sound it's
27:40because it actually teaches children women this is what we're talking about
27:44when we talk about humanity these are our first moments from the moment of
27:48when we are a human, distinct human life,
27:51throughout the entire pregnancy,
27:54they hate that that truth is being revealed.
27:56What if churches took that same approach?
27:59Hey, when we talk about made in the image of God,
28:01this is what we're talking about,
28:03and this is why we value human life so much,
28:05and this is why we should defend it.
28:07Unless we take a proactive stance,
28:10unless pastors actually stand up
28:11and don't worry about whatever political fallout happens,
28:15because this is not a political thing.
28:17this is a deeply spiritual thing, and they should not run from it.
28:21The left doesn't, the left screen is out there screaming the lie,
28:24while too many of us, particularly Christians, hide in a corner,
28:27you know, silent about the truth we know that truly sets people free.
28:32And even more than that, in the spiritual sense, it keeps people alive.
28:36It keeps people who are, who, we are all heirs of the kingdom.
28:40We are all God's heirs. That's how he created us, of course,
28:44of course in the family to raise up those heirs of Christ and Satan is winning over and over again
28:49as they get destroyed by the millions in the womb. So how do we bring that up? I mean, how do we change
28:57that? It has to change in our churches. It has to, of course, has to change in our families with
29:02Christian parents. Don't be afraid to talk to your children. Age appropriately about these issues.
29:08Don't be afraid to talk about it. You can't wait till their teenagers with the world's already
29:11nab them. I mean, my wife says often we have to teach our children before a broken world reaches them.
29:18So well said. Before you came on, I was talking from Matthew chapter 6 verses 33 and 34, actually verse
29:2433, 34, right in verse 34, Jesus said that he saw the masses scatter like sheep without a shepherd
29:31and he was moved with compassion and he taught them many things. Biblical compassion is not merely
29:37empathizing, but it actually moves beyond empathy to corrective
29:42instruction.
29:43Yes.
29:43It includes a corrective instruction.
29:44That's exactly, that's exactly what you're talking about.
29:46And I know that you all have a resource specifically for children.
29:49I mentioned some of the books you guys make available, but pro life
29:52kids is a wonderful resource.
29:53We've used it in my family with our own children.
29:56I'll simply go to the Radiance Foundation's website.
29:59I know I know the Radiance Foundation.org is one.
30:01I know you also have Radiance.life.
30:02Is that right?
30:03Yeah.
30:03Yeah.
30:04that radiance life, and you can get pro-life kids.
30:08It's an wonderful, illustrated book,
30:10particularly created to aid you in communicating these shoes
30:13to very young children.
30:15And as Ryan said, to do so in an age-appropriate manner,
30:19the Radiance Foundation is a wonderful resource
30:22to communicate these truths,
30:23and it's vitally important that we do so.
30:26Now, we have a few minutes in this segment.
30:28I wanna segue a bit, because you mentioned Planned Parenthood
30:31to be upset at the Baby Olivia film.
30:33They're also upset by some other things that are happening here recently.
30:36I'll start first with the Medina versus Planned Parenthood,
30:41South Atlantic Supreme Court opinion that says states have the law for
30:45the authority to remove baby murderers.
30:48I'm sorry, Planned Parenthood and others from their state's Medicaid programs.
30:53What was your reaction when you saw this decision by the Supreme Court?
30:59That was a joy.
31:00See, man, I was rejoicing.
31:01I actually led the rally at the Supreme Court for the Medina case.
31:07And I'll tell you, people sometimes just get so tired of being outnumbered and they forget that
31:13we're always going to be the remnant. It's okay that we're not the most popular. That's not what
31:19we're striving for. But when I saw that news, I mean, my heart just rejoiced because for so long
31:25to be able to fight this behemoth.
31:27This three, they have $3.1 billion in assets.
31:30Planned Parenthood has amassed this wealth
31:34because they've been able to flee taxpayers
31:36for decades and decades, pretending
31:38that they're leading healthcare provider.
31:39In fact, what blows my mind about the Medina case
31:42is that Planned Parenthood and state of the state,
31:44Texas being an example, they have defrauded Medicaid.
31:47They're defrauding the very system that they say,
31:49oh, well, we need this.
31:50Look, low income people and those who are impoverished,
31:52they need this. Well, then stop stealing from the fund.
31:55And Planned Parenthood, they were actually, it was the DOJ,
31:57Obama's DOJ, by the way, which was shocking.
32:00But the DOJ and Texas AG that brought this,
32:04they ended up getting this out of court settlement,
32:07which Planned Parenthood paid back 4.9 million
32:09of what was over $12 million of Medicaid fraud.
32:13Not the only state, there have been several states
32:15where they have settled out of court from Medicaid fraud.
32:19Let me stop right there, Brian.
32:20Let's pick up on the Medicaid fraud point
32:22when we get back from the break.
32:23You're listening to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
32:26I'm very concerned about the current young adult Christian fiction genre.
32:34I read or started reading over two dozen Christian YA novels.
32:39Many never mentioned Jesus and many had empty or confusing Christian allegories.
32:44How can we offer our children real hope when we are simply repackaging what the world offers?
32:49Let's look to our Creator God to help us write better stories.
32:54the full article, Read a Minute by me, JoelishisOnTheStand.net.
33:04Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Bitted Common Terrets are available at AFR.net.
33:10Back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
33:15Back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
33:17My guest is Ryan Baumburger, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the Radiance Foundation.
33:23And before the disrespectful music grabbed us, Ryan, you were, you were, you were,
33:27share with us information that's many people may not even be aware of that Planned Parenthood
33:32actually has been a defroder of the Medicaid fund. Would you please pick up the point you
33:38were making there and help us understand this?
33:40Well, yeah, I want to stab us to that, like, if someone is shoplifting from a store, they
33:44can be banned from that store. So I would think if you defrauded Medicaid, you should be permanently
33:49banned from being able to receive any Medicaid dollars. And that's the case of Planned Parenthood.
33:54Well, people say, well, they weren't convicted in court.
33:55It doesn't matter.
33:56They settle out of court over and over again,
33:57because they know they can't.
33:58They know they need to because they actually went
34:00to court in these cases.
34:01Texas is one of those cases where they had to pay back $4.9
34:04million.
34:05North Carolina, another case of defrauding Medicaid,
34:07they had to pay back $1.5 million,
34:10because they filed for Medicaid services
34:12that were never provided.
34:14And that's something it's been done in California.
34:16It's been in done in multiple states.
34:19And yet here they are in South Carolina,
34:20South Carolina is saying, wait, first of all,
34:22They don't even provide prenatal care.
34:25All they do is provide abortion.
34:26They're the largest provider of, you know,
34:30wrong sex hormones for children,
34:32all the puberty blockers and those dangerous chemicals,
34:35but they don't even provide any of these other services,
34:38actual medical services.
34:39People keep thinking because they've been duped
34:41by this $3 billion B-HMMF
34:43that they are actually leading healthcare provider or not.
34:45South Carolina is like, no, you don't even qualify.
34:48And so thankfully the Supreme Court
34:50kicked them out of that whole system
34:52because there is no constitutional right for funding.
34:57Yet that's what Planned Parenthood keeps arguing,
34:59that they have the constitutional right to be funded.
35:03Actually, nobody has the constitutional right to be funded.
35:06I mean, do rifle manufacturers have the right to be funded?
35:09I mean, it's a second amendment right to keep and bear arms,
35:12but the government doesn't have to fund a rifle
35:14or a gun manufacturer.
35:17It's so absurd that Planned Parenthood keeps winning
35:21because we get these judges who keep stepping outside
35:24of their role and their authority,
35:26like the district judge that the one big beautiful bill,
35:30who went for that one provision in the one big beautiful bill
35:33and said, wait a minute, you can't defund Planned Parenthood.
35:35People will be harmed.
35:37People need to understand less than 2%
35:39of the American public, less than 2%
35:41are actually served by Planned Parenthood.
35:44They can not only be defunded and shut down,
35:47they can be easily replaced.
35:50but we've been told over and over again by mainstream media,
35:52by liberal politicians, by Democrats over and over that no,
35:56women will have nowhere else to go,
35:58where are the other 98% going?
36:00Right, right.
36:02Right, and so let's just take this a few steps at a time,
36:06because you mentioned one district court judge,
36:08this is a judge in Boston,
36:10that tried, really ruled at the district court level,
36:14that the provisions in the one big beautiful bill
36:17cannot apply to remove Planned Parenthood from public
36:21coffers. And that's what we're saying. We're talking about
36:23taxpayers, taxpayer dollars, our money in the state of
36:27South Carolina has said at the state level at Medicaid funds
36:31that we don't want taxpayers dollars going, taxpayer dollars
36:34going to entities that kill babies. And then in the one
36:37beautiful bill, the provision said from the federal side that
36:41we want to remove taxpayers from having to foot the bill for
36:46baby murderers that do not provide prenatal services, as you mentioned, but you have judges that,
36:53I guess, see themselves as super-legislate tours and interrupt what is statutorily determined
37:00and once in one instance, and then legislated to determine on another instance, that kind of
37:05characterizes scenario. I mean, that's exactly what's going on. It's insane, of course, and the judges
37:11in their opinions, which their opinions to me are worthless because they don't know anything about
37:15about Planned Parenthood.
37:16If they did, they would know that every major medical service
37:18to women have been plummeting.
37:19So what are people missing out on?
37:21In the state of South Carolina, going back to that,
37:24there are 200 community health centers,
37:27taxpayer funded, federally qualified health centers.
37:30That don't kill babies.
37:32Don't kill babies.
37:33And there, versus the two Planned Parenthood
37:35is Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.
37:37That's the affiliate.
37:38Planned Parenthood is built on all these different affiliates.
37:41So they're all part of the Planned Parenthood
37:42Federation of America.
37:43But 200 taxpayer funded health centers
37:46that provide the full spectrum of healthcare
37:49are more obviously than Planned Parenthood.
37:51And they get a fraction of the funding
37:54that Planned Parenthood does.
37:56So this is the insanity that South Carolina lawmakers saw.
38:00That's why they want to shut this down.
38:01Planned Parenthood is all about killing babies.
38:03That's all, that end,
38:05they don't mutilate them in the womb.
38:07They're now trying to mutilate them outside of the womb.
38:08So they shut that down.
38:10but that district judge, it frustrates me to no end
38:14because Planned Parenthood, not only,
38:15not only do they not provide this kind of healthcare,
38:18they are an organization rife with corruption,
38:21but it doesn't matter how corrupt they are,
38:23those on the left will defend them no matter what.
38:25Planned Parenthood's slogan is care no matter what.
38:29But honestly, I just see rulings like this
38:32from this district judge, once again,
38:34the nationwide injunctions,
38:37they're careless no matter what.
38:39And they don't care about the law.
38:40They don't care about justice.
38:42They don't care about the fact that they're...
38:45You're not a legislator.
38:46Let Congress do its job.
38:48You interpret the law as it exists, not as you wish it were.
38:52Now, as the one big beautiful bill was being debated,
38:56Planned Parenthood kind of sent out their screen saying
38:59that if this bill passes,
39:00we're gonna have hundreds of our facilities
39:01that are gonna close,
39:03and they've actually announced the closure
39:06of several facilities.
39:07One, I used to have to drive by all the time
39:09on my way to the District Attorney's Office,
39:10in Houston, Planned Parenthood, Gulf Coast.
39:13They've announced its closure in Houston, Texas.
39:15There's also one in my hometown in the ones with Indiana
39:18that's announced its closure as well as others all around
39:21the nation.
39:23When you see these facilities closing,
39:26to, I guess this is a twofold question,
39:28what is your reaction to that?
39:29And what do you think is driving these closure announcements?
39:33Yeah, to be honest, I almost wanna cry.
39:36I just wanna say praise God,
39:37because this is a battle that so many before us
39:40have fought for decades and decades
39:42and to see it coming to reality.
39:44The proof that Planned Parenthood is all about abortion,
39:48it's the only thing that brings them any kind of revenue
39:50is shown by the fact that they're shutting down in Texas.
39:52The one in Texas in Houston, it looks like an Aztec temple.
39:56Oh yeah, it does.
39:57The largest one in the Western Hemisphere.
39:59Just going to see it.
40:00Right on I-45, yep.
40:01Go ahead.
40:02And surrounded by impoverished neighborhoods, by the way,
40:05because that's how they like it.
40:07You know, eugenics has never died.
40:08it just took on different form.
40:10But the fact that that center is shutting down is so huge.
40:14In fact, I remember watching the grand opening
40:16for that center and they had all these fake ministers,
40:20they weren't the ministers of the gospel,
40:22you know, of the devil's gospel perhaps,
40:25but they had this religious ceremony opening that place
40:28and calling it holy ground.
40:30Mm.
40:31And I can't even tell you what happened,
40:34just in my spirit to watch that disgusting,
40:36I mean, it was shown on the number of local TV stations
40:38but now that it's shut down, that's shutting down, I believe, in September. Praise God,
40:43praise God for that. And that they're shutting down in Louisiana, they're shutting down in
40:48Indiana, they're shutting down all across the country because they cannot survive without
40:52killing. That's the whole, that's why they exist. That's how they exist. That's how they
40:59bring in their revenue. That's how they make their massive profit year after year after
41:03year. So seeing them close down and trying to sound this alarm, I love it because I cannot
41:10wait till they are all shut down. The fact of the matter is they don't exist outside that
41:15they are not a health care provider. They had an opportunity years ago when they had a nurse
41:19who was actually serving as the head of Planned Parenthood who wanted them to move into primary
41:23care and actually provide the full spectrum and the board of Planned Parenthood dismissed all that
41:28because that's not what they do.
41:30We know what they do.
41:31And now because of what they do,
41:34they're getting shut down left and right
41:36because they don't have the funding.
41:39And this whole one big beautiful bill,
41:41the fact that it's only a year defunding,
41:44get me started about the spinelessness of the GOP,
41:46but the fact that it at least is hitting them for that year,
41:50it just goes to show you that they can't even survive
41:53for a year without funding,
41:55without our taxpayer dollars, yes.
41:58And I think that really draws a fine point on it,
42:02that these facilities are closing
42:04because they no longer have access to taxpayer money.
42:08You know, but hadn't it been, I mean, the bird rule
42:11and all these other things,
42:14that the money wasn't going towards abortion?
42:16Hadn't that been the public line prior to now?
42:19Such a lie.
42:20It's such, California actually illustrates
42:23how much of a lie that is.
42:24California has what's called Medi-Cal, it's the state version of Medicaid.
42:28And California pays for about 100,000 abortions under Medi-Cal, which is state funded and receives
42:36federal Medicaid dollars.
42:37And we all understand the whole fundable thing.
42:38You get all this money for this and they say, oh, it's not being used for that.
42:41Sure, it's not.
42:43But California kills through its Medi-Cal system over 100,000.
42:48And of course, that's probably an underestimate because California is infamous for not actually
42:53reporting accurate stats when it comes to abortion.
42:56But yeah, it's been their lie for a long time
42:58that Planned Parenthood doesn't use this money.
43:01Everything that they receive goes toward their machinery
43:04that pushes and promotes abortion,
43:06then it's funneled to their 501c4,
43:10that promotes nothing but abortion
43:12and their Planned Parenthood votes
43:14and all their other little subsidiary groups
43:16that only promote abortion.
43:17In fact, if you call Planned Parenthood's 800 number,
43:19the first thing that you hear is abortion,
43:22because they want to schedule your abortion.
43:24That's the first thing you hear about.
43:26It's such a, it's the biggest con, I think,
43:29in American history.
43:31They are not healthcare.
43:32If they're healthcare, then slavery was job care.
43:35Oh, wow. So there you have it.
43:36Wow.
43:37So with all of this, defunding Planned Parenthood
43:40at state levels and the one big beautiful bill,
43:42only for a year right now, unfortunately,
43:44may the Lord extend that,
43:47where do you see us in the journey,
43:50a long and hard-fart journey toward establishing a culture of life in America.
43:58Well, it always has to start in the home.
44:01It always has to be something that we raise our children to be vigilant about this.
44:05And evil never rests.
44:07We have to remember that.
44:08It's not like you do this.
44:09And oh, we're done.
44:10I feel like that's what happened with the Dobbs decision, that too many Christians and
44:13too many pro-lifers are like, oh, look, it's all done.
44:15No, it's done.
44:16It's not done.
44:17In some ways, yes, it was a huge benefit.
44:19In other ways, it turned out to be even worse
44:22because we were unprepared on the state level
44:23for all the state ballot initiatives,
44:25but it has to start in home.
44:27We have to teach a pro-life, a biblical pro-life worldview.
44:31It has to be in our churches
44:33because to be forever vigilant,
44:35we have to, one, continue to reach out
44:38to those who are facing unplanned pregnancies,
44:40be that resource, be that hope for them.
44:41We have to reach out in adoption, support birth parents,
44:46support birth moms and birth dads
44:47be the family that will bring in a child that the world would love to write off and say,
44:51well, they're better off dead. Nobody's better off dead. We're all better off loved. So we have
44:56to continue to provide. I mean, our pregnancy centers are frontline, but they're not the only ones in
45:01this battle. I'm maternity homes, adoption agencies, churches, and then of course, legislatively. We can't
45:06let politicians off the hook. You say that your pro life, I want to see it. I want to see the proof.
45:12And it's something that has to be continued. I will tell you what I'm frustrated with in the
45:15the state of Virginia is that the Virginia GOP has been spineless about the issue of
45:21abortion. We have an abortion amendment that they're passing. It goes through a really lengthy
45:24process two years of being passed in the Virginia Assembly, then it goes to a ballot initiative.
45:28It's already passed the first hurdle. But the GOP has taken the strategy that they're just
45:32going to be completely silent about abortion. Hold your elected leaders responsible. Hold
45:40them accountable because if they say they're pro-life, they better produce some fruit.
45:45In Virginia, we're gonna hold these Republicans
45:48that say that they're pro-life,
45:50we're gonna hold them to it.
45:51And honestly, we need to hold these churches to it
45:53because we wouldn't be fighting these battles
45:57if we didn't have so many churches silent
45:59on the injustice of abortion.
46:02Now, we also have the phenomenon
46:04that actually happened prior to the Dab's decision,
46:07but the numbers of abortions kind of changed
46:11the majority were being performed via a chemical abortion, which would require, I would argue,
46:18a similar educational effort and campaign across the country, because still to this state,
46:23there are lots of people who don't understand that chemical abortions are transpiring, even
46:28in states that don't no longer have surgical abortion clinics. Would you speak to that
46:31for a moment?
46:32Oh, yeah. The landscape has definitely changed. CDC reports that basically over 60%, it says
46:38It's up to 62, 63% of all abortions are now chemical abortions.
46:41Mythopristone and usually a combination of myseopristol.
46:46If I'm pronouncing that correctly, always get them messed up.
46:49But the fact of the matter is you've got these chemical DIY chemical
46:52abortion drugs that are available everywhere.
46:53They can be shipped from nefarious groups like aid access,
46:58which is a European group that ships these pills into all kinds of,
47:01even into states like Texas where it's illegal.
47:04They're sold at Walgreens and they're sold at Rite Aid and CVS.
47:08I mean, your neighborhood abortion drug dealers, so it has changed the landscape.
47:12It's also changed the time frame when we talk about pregnancy centers and dealing with those
47:17facing the fear and the confusion of an unexpected pregnancy.
47:20Well, you now have a much shortened time frame.
47:22I mean, literally you have hours.
47:23You don't have days.
47:24You don't have a week.
47:26And so it's changed that whole landscape.
47:28And the problem with these DIY abortion drugs, which we found in a recent report that actually
47:33showed the FDA has been hiding a lot of the adverse effects, the incredibly damaging adverse
47:42effects, deaths and severe hospitalizations and severe interventions, medical interventions
47:49and surgeries.
47:52It's unconscionable that the FDA continues to, I mean, I love the fact that they're taking
47:58out red dye from foods.
48:00Okay, great.
48:02You know woman dies women die from you know over 30 die from from these pills and it's no big deal
48:07I mean if
48:09so
48:10The landscape has changed we have to to deal with this and I and I'm hoping with this recent
48:15There's a recent lawsuit that was filed out of Texas were a
48:19I'm trying to prevent myself from using descriptors for this guy, but this guy
48:24Why?
48:26We got this girlfriend.
48:27We got this girlfriend.
48:28Stop Ryan.
48:29Because the dis-destructive music is grabbing us.
48:31Which is me.
48:32Wait, to be continued.
48:33To be continued.
48:34You have to come back.
48:35Ryan Baumburg, the Radiance Foundation Radiance.life.
48:37Go there.
48:38You need to.
48:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
48:44Family Association or American Family Radio.

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